St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04

expression of
mingled misery and forced resignation
that greetS one on every side in the
''Saratoga of the West" leads one to
think that of all the duties that Cypress
the spirit of man the duty. of enjoying
himself is little the heaviest and most
painful.
'Saphrony. my dear, we have eX actly
three days to. svuander; where shall
khey be sQuandered," l asked; and
Saphrony, in all the innocence of mex
perience replied, Let it be at Wauke-
bha." The one prayer that was con-
btantly on my lips during those three
days was. Lord forgive her; she knew
pot what she did" If l could have
with malice aforethought she ordered
our movements, l would deliberately
pnd diabolically have paid the board
bill for three months, and left
her there to work out her
salvatiOn by flooding her guilt-stained
Soul with pure spring water. AprOpOs
pf this spring water it is commonly said
that il is very light, and l can conceive
Df nothing that must be more completely
worn out at the end of the season than
3 this same water. 1t holds up the town
and the hundreds of pleasure seekers,
unsupported by so much as the smallest,
bOniest fish that ever rewarded the
efforts of the Self-martyred summer
tourist. Just as they are without one
plea for anything else. fond parents,
= with unnumbered children and nurses,
\ east themselves upon this water. and the
< water never says a word in its own be-
half. 1t just bubbles up, and bears its
burden OF sweltering, tired humanity as
il it hadn't another ambition to accom-
pliSh, and doesn't even frown on the
nnl- N-h 10 hot viii toll
ton of generosity. seek to lend it assist
ance in its time of trial. For the
EMBODIMENT OF LONG SUFFERING EN-
DURANGO
commend me to the Waukesha spring
water, that isn't in reality strong
enough to sustain the life of one man,
let alone that of the innumerable
Eastern and Southern tourists that
ruthlessly thrust themselves upon it.
When Saphrony and l, after waiting in
the reception room at the Fountain
house until all the married women who
had arrived Oh the same train were ac-
commOdated, were finally turned loose
i'll back room on the third floor, we
sank side by side on the bed, and
meekly wondered what there was
about our Enthusiastically genteel get-up
that led the short-sighted clerk to sup
pose that we had a prediction for sky
parlorS ana back views.
There amt any flies on me-" said
Saphrony, waxing slangy from the same
ebulition of spirits that causes all
old horse turned out to pasture to kick
up its heels.
Don't display such unseemly and
nnwomanly levity on an occasion like
this, Sophrony, when your blood should
be boiling with indi gnation. This in
suit is the result of those detestable eye
glasses of yours, and various other signs
of single blessednesS we both exhibit.
The glory of single blessedness is all
right until we take it travelling, but then
we discover the ineStimable benefit of
having the shadow of a man cast upon
Dur lives. Now, mark my words, So
phrony, we shall not get one morsel to
Pat tonight till every last man and his
belongings in the dining-room have
ceased to cry more"
Verify, it was so. When we had, with
becoming modesty. glided into the din
lng-rOom and dropped into a seat, after
a glance at our neighborS, apologizing
for the sin OF our existence, there was
nothing to do but to sit and look supe-
riOr to the vulgarity of eating until
every potential fee-every man and his
DWn-waS served.
For the first time in my career" said
SOphrony, as she sneaked a lemon
wafer Off from the plate of cake mar
ried woman beside her had ordered
s'for the first time in my career l wish
] had been born a dog"
THAT some man might find you at
tractive," l spitefully asked. l was
that hungry that the fact of living in a
glass house myself did not keep me
from indulging in the
RECKLESS PASTIME OF THROWING
mo, DEAR she gently and reproach-
fully replied; ''only that that 1 might
get down under the table and feel that
had right to few crumbs"
ASPIRE to the rights of women, if
you must, Sophrony, but in all the
eagernesS of your desire for advance
ment don't be foolish enough to love to
place yourself on a level with dogs"
There is no telling to what extent of
cyniciSm starvation would have driven
us had not our fainting StOmachS been
sustained and our hearts Softened at
this juncture by the advent of mig
GER" who came in the guiSe of an inter-
Togation point, with abilI of fare and an
apparent Willingness to satisfy the void
within us. If he gave us stone when
we called for bread far was it from us
to complain. We remembered our sex,
we remembered our condition, and were
silent.
When we sauntered out on the ver-
anda after supper, and found by actual
count twenty-five women to one man, or
apology for man, if we confess to
feeling of disappointment let it not be
supposed that we have weakness for
the fabricated beings. Never! 1t is
only that variety is pleasing, and that,
however good their intentions may be,
there is a depressing uniformity about
unrelieved women.
''Folks seem to be going somewhere
said SOphrony.
Accordingly we quietly fell into the
rear of procession that, way off in the
distance, was headed by man, and
went, too. We brought up at spring.
You can't bring up at any place else at
WaukeSha. There is fatality about
all your movements fatality that re-
duceS one to an automatOn in precisely
twenty-four hours. Sophrony took
glass of water
AND PASSED ONE TO ME-.
"Bah! take it away; Pm not thirsty"
said.
never saw Sophrony look so morti-
fe6 in my life, and as for the others
who overheard, they simply turned the
whites of their eyes up to Heaven and
thanked the Lord they knew what they
were made for. Sophropy GUIDED down
one glaSSful and then hustled me off to
secluded corner, where she told me to
play Godiya-to take off my corsets and
wear "bloomers" all the time. / was
thereto do anything; to make myself
conspicuous il must; but, for the love
of 6ecency, never again to refuse glass
of that beautiful spring water. She
said l might have a mistaken idea that
springs were made for man, and
It might be so In other places, but
in Wakesha man is made for the springs,
and it is his duty of duties to do what
he can for them in the way of drinking